When We Rise(TV show/series, 2017)

Name: When We Rise
Genre: Drama
Released: 2017
Rating: 3.3

43min per episode | Genre: Drama

Mini series in 1 season with 4 episodes

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

When We Rise is an eight-part American docudrama miniseries about the history of LGBT rights advocacy in the United States from the 1970s to the 2010s. It was created by Dustin Lance Black and stars Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Kenneth Williams, Austin P. McKenzie, Emily Skeggs, Jonathan Majors, Fiona Dourif, and Sam Jaeger among 30 others. The miniseries premiered on ABC on February 27, 2017, with the rest of its episodes airing March 1 to 3. ()

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About When We Rise

The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today. The period piece tells the history of the gay rights movement, starting with the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

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Trailer for When We Rise + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

WHEN WE RISE Season 1 Trailer (2017) Gus van Sant abc Mini-Series(Trailer, 2:16)

When We Rise Seasons and Episodes

02/27/2017Season 1 - 4 episodes

#1 | 02/27/2017Part I

4.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A young peace activist escapes his repressive life in Phoenix and heads to San Francisco, hoping to find refuge and community, but finds that the struggle for survival is just as difficult as it was back home. Elsewhere, NOW purges lesbians from its ranks.

#2 | 03/01/2017Part II

4.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Ken, Cleve, and Roma fight an initiative that would ban gays from working in California public schools, while Cleve works on the campaign to elect Harvey Milk as San Francisco City Supervisor. But soon a disease starts killing gay men all over the country.

#3 | 03/02/2017Part III

4.2/5 (with 3 votes)

AIDS continues to ravage the gay community. Cleve creates the AIDS quilt in order to get the President's attention, while Diane's daughter Annie struggles with her identity as the child of a lesbian couple and a gay man.

#4 | 03/03/2017Part IV

4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

An energized Cleve inspires a group of young activists to organize a march on Washington to demand full LGBTQ civil rights, while Roma uses her skills to reform healthcare in San Francisco. Elsewhere, a group forms to try overturning California's discriminatory proposition banning gay marriage.

03/02/2017Specials - 9 episodes

Additional Information

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: ABC Studios

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 12 languages: Czech (CS), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Ended

First episode released on: 02/27/2017

Last episode released on: 03/03/2017

Cast: Guy Pearce, Austin P. McKenzie, Mary-Louise Parker, Rachel Griffiths, Carrie Preston, Michael K. Williams

Creator: Dustin Lance Black

Directors: Gus Van Sant, Dee Rees, Thomas Schlamme, Dustin Lance Black

Screenwriter: Dustin Lance Black

Executive Producer: Dustin Lance Black, Gus Van Sant, Laurence Mark, Bruce Cohen

Keywords: lesbian, civil rights, lgbt, miniseries

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